Greg McKeown

And there was the night before the moment we all remember where Saddam Hussein is found coming out of what was called the spider cave or whatever, a spider hole.

And this is Eric Maddox.

Okay, Eric Maddox, what's the connection?

Back to your original question with Gandhi, reduce myself to zero.

He said the key to doing this was what he called, I'm going to erase my mind.

I begin by erasing my mind so that I can even begin to visualize their world, their story, their narrative.

And so that I think is a similar point.

The noise, now he doesn't use this way, but Carl Rogers, he doesn't use the word noise, but the enemy that what he calls the blocker is our tendency to evaluate other people before we've understood them.

And he said, this is the idea.

That's the noise in the equation.

So putting that aside, pausing and trying to lose ourself, where do they come from?

How are they seeing it?

What do they understand?

What does this mean to them?

And staying with it is just the key to getting signals to be revealed and connecting those signals.

Whether it's Gandhi in India, whether it's Satya Nadella at Microsoft, whether it's

Eric Maddox in the middle of one of the noisiest environments you could even imagine.

In those kinds of environments, there is such a way to break through.

And so this intent to understand and be understood and no other intent represents a significant paradigm shift from what we are doing now and what we have even experienced in our lives.

And once we discover it, the world opens up to us.